Alfred Thompson was a Canadian

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 physician

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 and politician

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Born in Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia

Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia

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, the son of James A. Thompson and Jane Thompson, Thompson was educated at a public school by private tutor and graduated from Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University

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 with a degree of M.D.C.M. in 1898. He went to the Klondike

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 in 1899 where he practiced medicine. In 1902, he was elected to the Yukon Council. Thompson would go on to sit three times in the Canadian House of Commons

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, always representing the federal constituency of the Yukon

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A Conservative

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, he first sat in the House between 1904 and 1908, taking the seat away from his main rival, former Yukon Commissioner

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 Frederick Tennyson Congdon

Frederick Tennyson Congdon

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. The seat had recently been vacated by another former Yukon Commissioner, James Hamilton Ross

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, because of his appointment to the Canadian Senate

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In 1908

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, Congdon finally received the seat, but Thompson won it back in 1911

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, and was re-elected in 1917

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, remaining the MP for Yukon until 1921

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, when he lost the seat to George Black, yet another Yukon Commissioner.